ITS DEPARTMENTS AND COMMISSARS

[6 March 1918]

Penza, Soviet of Deputies and Commissars

We propose that the Soviet, all its departments and commissars unfailingly provide the fullest active assistance to the Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers, especially in accommodating workers arriving from Petrograd and supplying them with foodstuffs and everything necessary. We propose that you immediately issue an order to all hospitals and medical stations of Penza to cease accepting the wounded, sick and to notify the appropriate authorities of this, since the medical stations of Penza are designated for institutions being evacuated from Petrograd¹.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Published according to the text written by the secretary and signed by V. I. Lenin